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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:33:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: John Zielinski <grimr@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone else kernel mounting a filesystem that has a block device?
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, John Zielinski wrote:

> I'm going to be mounting a filesystem that uses a block device from inside
> the kernel.  This mount will not be visible from userland nor can it be
> unmounted from userland.  Is anyone else doing something like this so we can
> coordinate on the changes needed to fs/super.c?

No changes needed. Check kern_mount().

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